Example sentences of "[noun sg] to look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | had to be promoted to Joint Principal Agent to look after the party . |
| 2 | When the examiner picks up your script to look for question 5 , for example , he ought to be able to open the book at roughly the right place and find question 5 . |
| 3 | She leaned over the fence to look through the glass of Constance 's back door , disappointed to think she might not be there . |
| 4 | Outer Space , is concerned with recent developments in photo-based installations and presents a range of cultural , historical , political and technological ‘ spaces ’ in an attempt to look beyond established attitudes to photography ( 19 Mar–26 April ) . |
| 5 | In a rejoinder to Darling 's criticisms , Kirk ( 1978 ) , a member of the committee , points out the specific references in the report to the weakness of Hirst 's approach , and the addition of appeals to the social usefulness of educational activities ( something foreign to Hirst who was concerned primarily with intrinsic worth ) as evidence of an attempt to look beyond a cognitive based curriculum . |
| 6 | Outer Space , is concerned with recent developments in photo-based installations and presents a range of cultural , historical , political and technological ‘ spaces ’ in an attempt to look beyond established attitudes to photography ( 19 Mar–26 April ) . |
| 7 | It was time to make some attempt to look for him . |
| 8 | While do-it-yourself rock , fan-club organizations and dancing-in-the-aisles are certainly not independent of industry interests , such a breathtaking theoretical closure reduces the musical role of the vast majority of humankind to a subservient attempt to match up , as listeners , to the demands of ‘ advanced ’ producers ; Marx 's vision of a future with every man an artist certainly seems to be definitively buried , but on a less exalted level , there is once again no attempt to look for the possibility of contradictory meanings in the actual practice of real listeners . |
| 9 | Reginald Bassett 's 1931 : Political Crisis , published in 1958 , was the first attempt to look at the events of 1931 free from contemporary preconceptions . |
| 10 | Thus book is an attempt to look at some of the things that go on when people face a loss of someone or something significant in their lives . |
| 11 | An attempt to look at the overall picture was made by the Royal Commission on Legal Services : its recommendations were widely criticised and largely ignored . |
| 12 | Frank Almond , Chief Executive of Intermediate Technology , said that Major had " missed the mark in a quite spectacular manner " , and that there had been no apparent attempt to look at what was either affordable or appropriate . |
| 13 | My youngest son , Joseph , is very interested in history , and we are going to Hue to look at the Imperial City and watch the emperor perform the traditional ceremonies of Tet . " |
| 14 | horse to look after and I 'm , you know is there any more money ? |
| 15 | Initial test copies of the Earth Data System , which incorporates Boulder , Colorado-based Ellery software , began shipping in October 1992 , and are running on Hewlett workstations at five US locations including universities and research centres , for example enabling researchers analysing the Pacific Northwest to look at environmental data from their desktop to help forest managers to decide where to cut and replant trees without disrupting wildlife . |
| 16 | Would that have been about the time you went back to the car to look for your nine iron ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ So , when you failed to find him , you gave up and went back to the car to look for your nine iron ? ’ |
| 18 | With this in mind he has established a small scientific strategic and research programme to look at the analytical programme from a broader perspective . |
| 19 | You may not feel that this is always necessary with designs that can be knitted automatically , since they will appear on screen in colour , but it is a great memory jogger and , rather then going back into the programme to look at a design , the colours and design may be seen from the printout . |
| 20 | To this end the investigator shall circulate a questionnaire to about 150 traffic officers and inspectors in a major provincial Police Force to look at : views on the impact of Fixed Penalty Notices on police/public relations ; officers ' workload ; officers ' exercise of discretion ; supervisors ' mechanisms for monitoring discretion ; views on the proper extent , limitation , acquisition and training of discretion ; and attributes of the offence and the offender which influence officers ' decisions . |
| 21 | But there was no reply , and when Belinda turned from the front passenger seat to look at the artist stretched out in the back , she saw that Faye had the back of her hand pressed against her mouth to stifle her sobs . |
| 22 | ‘ Could I possibly borrow some money ? ’ she asked , turing in her seat to look at him . |
| 23 | Your wife will have her lawyer to look after her interests , and you 'll have to have yours to look after yours . |
| 24 | She could turn neither her head , nor her neck to look at us . |
| 25 | It hurts my neck to look at you . ’ |
| 26 | He was imprisoned up there , beneath the lead roof , ’ Lucenzo said , pulling her close , his head against hers as she craned her neck to look at the pink and white Doges ' Palace . |
| 27 | Craned my neck to look for a way up to the high high bridge , saw a rocky overgrown path over the other side of the road . |
| 28 | Eventually her grandmother came to rouse her , infuriated as always to see the lanky child leaning against the cornerpost of the verandah , craning her long neck to look between the palms at nothing . |
| 29 | Adam craned his neck to look after the others . |
| 30 | Leave five minutes before each interview to look at the candidate 's application form/letter , and any particular questions noted down while first reading it . |